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A Zionville man was transported to Watauga Medical Center after a crash late yesterday afternoon on US 421. The 4:30pm crash occurred near Linville Creek Road in Vilas when Tanner Cole Swift turned out of Charlie’s Auto Repair into the highway and into the path of the vehicle of Alan Clay Burchell
of Grover Norris Road. Burchell suffered a broken arm, according to the trooper who came upon the wreck while headed to another crash, and he cited Tanner Cole Swift with Failure to Yield in the crash that totaled both trucks.